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The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) is an administrative policy-making body for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was created in the 1973 Louisiana Constitutional Convention, called by then Governor Edwin W. Edwards , and codified as Article VIII of the resulting document, the 1974 ...
Leslie Rosenthal Jacobs (born 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an education reform advocate, business executive, and philanthropist.Born in New Orleans and a graduate of Cornell University, she built her family's small, independent insurance agency into one of the largest in the South, before merging the Rosenthal Agency with Hibernia National Bank (now Capital One).
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) is required by the Louisiana Constitution to adopt a formula to determine the total cost of a minimum foundation program of education in public schools and to equitably allocate funding to school systems. The Louisiana legislature must approve the formula each year.
Lottie Polozola Beebe, sometimes known as Lottie Beebe-Pearson (born October 1953), is the superintendent of public schools in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. In September 2018, the St. Martin Parish School Board declined to renew Beebe's contract as superintendent, but she showed up for work the next day on the advice of her lawyer, L. Lane Roy of Lafayette.
Prior to his appointment in 1996 as the state's Commissioner of Higher Education, he served in many roles on the UL Lafayette campus, including vice president for university advancement, executive director of the alumni association, program director for the Union Program Council and student government adviser, as well as an adjunct assistant ...
The Louisiana Science Education Act, Act 473 (SB733) of 2008 [1] is a controversial anti-evolution [2] law passed by the Louisiana Legislature on June 11, 2008 and signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal on June 25. [3] The act allows public school teachers to use supplemental materials in the science classroom which are critical of scientific ...
For students in grade 1 and above, admissions usually requires taking a test in the French language.In 2019 the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) allowed the school to give waivers for the French proficiency test to students who come from schools accredited by the French Ministry of Education and/or have passed the Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française.
In Louisiana, the logistics for the new law are still unclear. Unless a court halts the legislation, schools have just over five months until they will be required to have a poster-sized display ...